Poll of the Day > Do you generally like rap or heavy metal better?

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One way to tell if someone likes rap is if they like black girls cause of those music videos. Just kidding. I just lived in a predominant black neighborhood. But I forget to ask my old friend who we both lived in a predominant white state, why he doesn't like black girls if he listens to rap and watches hip hop videos. He ended up marrying Korean like himself though.

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Not a fan of either. I like some metal, but generally not heavy metal. The only rap I've ever liked is epic rap battles of history.
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I like a fairly wide spectrum of both but metal definitely wins.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Cant stand heavy metal. Its probably the only kind of music I truly dislike.

Im always like youre a grown ass man why are you screaming like that?

...yeah, you really can't know a lot of metal, if you think that's all it is. Scream, thrash, & death metal are their own subgenres. NOT all metal is like that. I listen to progressive, power & symphonic metal over anything else; you should take a look at bands like Epica, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Sonata Arctica, &/or Delain, if it's metal screams that put you off the genre.

As for my answer to the poll, unquestionably metal. Nu-, prog, symphonic, folk and gothic especially. I am a proud & happy metalhead. And the symphonic/gothic metal community is so welcoming, I love those gigs.

I don't mind rap, but it's not really my sort of thing - not in English, anyway. Japanese, Spanish and Hebrew, well, that's different. I find it hard to figure the line between rap and hip-hop sometimes though.

As for metal, revisiting that, at my very first metal gig, when I was 18, I got into the mosh pit, and wound up dislocating my left shoulder four times that night. I put it back myself against a pillar in the middle of the room, because I was having so much fun I didn't want to miss a moment by having to visit the first-aider. That was a Lacuna Coil gig.

They're still fantastic live, and I still go to every local gig they play - and some extras (last month's 20th anniversary circus-style one-off show in London being one of these - and that was SO much fun. We had a pre-gig meet of fans and nearly filled the nearest pub - only half a dozen people there were obviously not with us!). Anyway, symphonic metal is decidedly my favourite genre, but I do vary it a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtft6LqgFSA

(Lacuna Coil - "Nothing Stands In Our Way")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvqIi427_A

(Within Temptation feat. XZibit - "And We Run")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3xPmt9x9nw

(Sonata Arctica - "Tallulah" (live))

And a rap song I do like =P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znAELUHuEdE

(Hadag Nachash - "Bella Bellissima")
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Not that there's anything wrong with extreme vocals in music. It's art and it's not going to appeal to everyone.
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InfiniteMick posted...

Both better than country

As someone who married a farm girl and learned that steel guitar makes my head feel like it's going to explode... yes... I will take Young Thug mumbling incoherently or some troubled white kid making vomit noises over country.
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Moonjay posted...

Heavy metal by far. Heavy Metal is my soul, man. Rap can be okay though.

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d1m3r posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qK_S6y76Ow

big difference from the first album. hadnt heard about them since and that was about 20 years ago. this is what i remember of their music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg1R-xK9MJo

Heavy metal, sans the 80's. Though I've got a spot in my heart for Coolio's stuff and I enjoy some of Eminem's earlier work.
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